http://www.dslreports.com/forum/LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22158694 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:08:40 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:08:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22185112 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22185112 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:14:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22181674 Last-Mile' is a term used, loosely, in the industry for referencing the 'last mile to a few miles' of cabling needed to supply service to a customer. The term originated when engineers were considering what types of cable to use when leaving a remote terminal site. They had to consider expense, signal loss and ease of placement. Within VZ today, the 'last-mile' cable happens to be fiber. And, the drop, the wire/fiber coming to your house from VZ's terminal, is also fiber, in their implementation of FTTP (fiber to the prem).

The overly large reels that you see are probably just plain old fiber cable or inter-duct, nothing special. Besides Corning, Sumitomo Electric & Premier Cables still manufacture fiber cable (there may be more, too). Alcatel-Lucent, Pirelli, the former AT&T and Siecor (a partnership between Siemons & Corning) used to mfgr FO cables and many miles of their cable still exist around the world. Corning manufactures nearly 100% of the actual fiber strands and the manufacturers merely assemble the FO cable to whatever specs are desired.

Take a peek here '»www.premiercables.net/index.aspx' Google for pics of FO cables.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22181674 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:36:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22158694
Include pictures of the cable itself, if possible.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/LastMile-Fiber-Suppliers-Who-22158694 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:44:56 EDT